I'm Bulgarian

I was in Golden Sands this year, June 2018. The taxi driver wanted us to pay 74 Lev from Golden Sands to Albena! We got angry and paid only 40 Lev. By the way, Leva rosé is not bad.

 

Jesus Christ, Brüder!!!

Lev = лв.

Albena - Golden Sands is exactly 13 kilometers. In Varna cabbies drive on 0.99 лв. /kilometer. 1.00 лв. is the starting tariff. It's fixed prices. Law about the competition and such.

This makes the total sum you had to pay at around... Not "around" but exactly at 14 лв.

Starting tariff is 1.00 лв.
13 km × 0.99 лв. = 13 лв.

Total would be: 14 лв.

Not 40, or even 74. That's clearly insane. He probably switched off his meter, did I get it right?

You always call a cab over the phone. From the Central they'll send ye a car.

That's why you need a Bulgarian on the forum. Jesus. 40 лв. that's a focken daytime robbery, Mann.

Ye should've not paid him and called 112 (Police) since these cab drivers often don't even have a proper license. And they can't just switch off their meters.

And in Plovdiv city, price per kilometer is exactly 0.32 лв.

13 km × 0.32 лв. plus the start tariff = around 5 лв.

In Plovdiv you can circle the city for around the price of a pack of Rothmans’. Their economy is destroyed for many years now. But it's good for business and tourism at least. Cheap as hell.

 

We drink ....

 

Don't know about that brand. Try Danone.

 

Welcome to the party, pal

 

Thank you very greatly, @ArmySoldier
That means a lot. Really.

 

Yet another warm welcome to you.
I like PoliticalForum because a lot of non-Americans visit here, and you can learn a lot from them. Which Americans need to do. And vice-versa.
So ... how about, some time, giving us a brief history of Bulgaria since the Russians went home and let their "little brothers" make their own mistakes.

Everyone here is a political obsessive, so it's the politics we want to know about. And you don't have to be a Marxist to know that underneath the politics, is the economics, and both are all tied up with 'the society'.

Yes ... I can ask Wikipedia and get a run down, and I will. But you can probably tell us things that Wiki won't.

And also: how in hell did a Bulgarian come to be travelling on Route 66 -- you share my love of the American West, and certain mechanical things, but I'm a Texan. How did this happen to you?

 

G'day, Doug!

Thank ye for the dardy welcome, you good old chap. You're too kind fella! You're lucky. Well I happen to write about politics, professionally. I'm a writer, and a web designer. But it's my hobby too. Isn't that a ripper. But I tend to stay away from foreign vermin, if ye know what I mean, mate. I don't know but I always had a great pull for the American West, the freedom of the choice, old saloon music, old country music, guns and knives and bowie knives, old simple engines, old engines, old HEMIs, and old Buicks, and I had a thing for German belongings and the German volk too, but recently things took a whole greater turn for me when I found out that Germans, actually hate Americans in their gut, and not only that, but they allowed a great bunch of unholy people in their lands and opened the floodgates to Europe. And that – is a no-no for me! Germans also share the English anti-gun sentiment, which is a hell of a no-no for me! I'm greatly disappointed in the German people. Same goes for Russians. I lost a big deal of Russian friendos just because my customers are mostly American and Canadian and I stand by a specific understandings that obviously don't get understood well in Europe. My mistake that I used to share stuff I like about America, so people eventually hated me for it.

Do you believe in reincarnation? The Indians, your Natives, they used to say that children are just travellers. Just passing through your home, and you shall let them go. They're not "yours", but they are passing by. The Indians believed that man always gets reborn. Well, not always but for numerous times obviously, until there's hope that he can change. The Indians for being "savages", they knew a hell of a lot of things about the stars, the planets and our Solar system. Wonder how they knew all that besides being highly spiritual and all. And they were great at navigation.

I don't know, maybe I spent my previous life in the good ole South Dakota.

But now seriously. I really avoid communication with Europeans. I rarely make exceptions. Because I always get attacked for my love for guns, love for American writers, and because of my dislike for England and such I also got attacked a lot. So I just avoid people like that now. The pull for the US becomes even greater when you're being isolated by your own people, in your own Europe. People are turning me against Europe because of their stupidity.

Things in Europe are way worse now. There's a constant anti-American propaganda on the news stations, over the Internet, even in Bars and Cafes, everywhere. And I really I don't care about the US Government, I don't trust politicians, but every dem time I try to explain something to someone I fail. When a heated argument emerges that the Americans are evil and Russians are the good guys that're gonna kill Americans soon and sooner the better, I try to explain that when you're in the Army you have a contract with them for a specific time period. And if they sent ya in Vietnam or in Iraq, which happens to be when you still are in the middle of your Army contract, you can either go and let time go by, or become a deserter and stand before a court-martial, which you probably won't win. The keen will understand me that most of the people that come from nothing, tried to escape misery through the military and they enlisted in peace times just so they can be sent to the end of the world later.

 

A very interesting post which shows many aspects of your eclectic nature.

 

I think I'm a pretty simple and narrow. I like guns, I like simple things, I want people to never scam me and be honest, at least a bit, and I like to be left alone and my beliefs untouched. I think that's about it, the most important things for me.

 

People who value Emerson & Franklin are not generally noted for also liking guns. But you do which is rather interesting. But then, I like those things, too.

 

I too like beer, the old western towns, the vastness of the west, the 2nd Amendment, guns, knives, fast cars, politics and Benjamin and Thomas.

Cheers!

Seth

 

How this for the vastness of the west?

 

Hey Sheriff - is that you still patrolling the Badlands?

I thought you retired back in '17 (that is 1917).

 

Bulgarica ~ I bet you start your day with one of these:








banitsa/banitza ~ Bulgarian cheese bread - it's the only Bulgarian food I know and is just great with your morning coffee!

 

Ha! That would be me. I was hunting terrorists called "chukars". These terrorists have found haven in the Owyhee badlands of southeastern Oregon, and it was my patriotic duty to go after 'em.

Seth

 

Aye, a brother in Arms! Kind of a shame I sort of settled in lately. I don't enjoy driving anymore. And I couldn't care less about driving fast anymore. I kind of went on the slow lane. Had an accident with my Jeep two years back so things took a turn for me. Someone whiplashed me from behind, on the motorway – with a 100 mph. That's a different story. I always loved slow V8s. Torque, not horsepower. Slow little mud buggers.

Good photo. You're awesome. Just wonderful. Thanks for the photo. So here's something for the eyes from me too. That was mine for around 3 years; sold it not so long ago. The other photos are in a Spoiler down below the photo. Click to open.



Spoiler:

Spoiler: PHOTOS ARE HERE

All photos are around my area. Highway to Golden Sands, @Thingamabob
And the woods around the Northern Black Sea.

 

Twisted. The world is getting twisted.

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
— Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

It's weird. This old saying is never gonna be outdated. It's still actual up to day. They push for something because they want a little temporary safety. So they will lose it all. And with them, maybe us lose too.

In Bulgaria, we have a saying:

“Near the dry, the wet it burns too.”
– Bulgarian old wisdom

Thanks, by the way!

And darn it, Truth! I feel hungry now...

 

Whoa ... what a collection of ... errrr ... interesting people there are on this forum.

I'm a great-great-grandson of Mosholatubee, chief of the Choctaw Tribe, one of what the English settlers called "the five civilized tribes" because they didn't resist the invaders much, converted to Christianity, learned to read and write, owned slaves, etc. Didn't save them when it came time to take away all their land in the Deep South and put 'em on the 'Trail of Tears' to Oklahoma. (I guess my ancestor was a Quisling, as he signed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Hill which 'legitimized' the theft. But when the other guy has all the guns, what can you do? As old Bismarck said, all the really important issues are settled not by votes but by Blood and Iron.) The Indians -- some of them, further south (Mayas, Aztecs, Incas) were well on the way to civilization -- the Mayans had a superior numbering system, exponential-positional, than their Roman contemporaries, for example, although bad land-management policies evidently -- but the arrival of the Spanish put an end to that line of development -- as Che Guevara said, they invented many things, but not the most important thing, gunpowder. However, in my case it's just a bit of DNA, nothing in my personal culture is Indian -- just white Protestant semi-Southern (Texan). But it's useful to use in a debate to shut the mouth of some little snowflake trying to white-guilt me.

Me too ... and I live in England! (It's always a conversation-stopper at a dinner party here when the conversation turns to the "dreadful American attitude to gun-ownership", and I have to reply that I share it. Especially when I say that the only thing I miss, in living here, is that I can't open my window at night and hear the sound of gunfire. Or give a list of the firearms I've left with friends and relations back in Texas.) I do have a nice collection of knives here though, including a genuine, not tourist, kukri, and a Persian assassin's dagger, and a Nazi SS dagger -- with, sadly, the point broken off, which apparently the British made their soldiers do when they brought these souvenirs home after WWII. Vandalism. [I should say that most non-German Europeans won't be terribly upset by the new German anti-gun sentiment.]

I've never travelled much on the Continent, not in the last twenty years anyway, so I haven't run into that. And I have to say I've never run into much real anti-Americanism in the UK, although lots of people deplore Mr Trump. But then so does half of America. I think it was worse during Vietnam ... supposedly American college students travelling in Europe used to sew the Maple Leaf Flag onto their rucksacks and pretend they were Canadians. (Who are just Americans with healthcare, so far as I can see.) In fact, most of the young people I know here in the UK -- I tutor kids for a living -- seem to admire Americans. My wife and I spent a month, twice, camping around the American Southwest, and then the Northwest, plus California both times, with her two grandchildren and they absolutely loved the place -- both the amazing enormous geography, and the people. Her grandson, aged 11 then, taught lots of American kids at each place we camped how to play football ('soccer') ... or tried to.. And he's is still very proud of the photo we took of him posing with my nephew's AR15 after we went out and burned through a few dozen rounds with it.

It's a cliche, but there are great people and horrible people everywhere. Which is where we must agree to differ: I know some great Russians (especially if you count BeloRussians and Ukrainians), some wonderful Germans, some lovely French people and even ... some terrific Turks! I wouldn't want to exclude any of them if I were picking colonists for Mr Musk's Martian colony. National stereotypes no doubt always have some grains of truth, but are generally a bad idea. Surely a Bulgarian will agree with that!

It's the leaders you have to be skeptical of.

Final note: I see you're a fan of Georgi Rakovski. Appropos of nothing, do you know of the other Bulgarian Rakovski, a nephew of Georgii, named Christian Rakovski? A very brave man as well, although of another political persuasion. (Internationalist, not nationalist.), executed by the NKVD for continuing to fight for the original ideals of the Russian Revolution.

By the way, congratulations on your mastery of foreign languages ... especially English (I can't speak for the quality of your Russian), and even American English, down to the slang terms! A model for us all -- one of the great disadvantages of being a native English-speaker is that you're under no pressure to learn more languages -- but bilingual children apparently benefit from cognitive advancement in other areas as well, which is why the USA should become bi-lingual. Of course, we'll eventually all be learning Mandarin, but that's another generation or two away.

 

Thanks for the photos. I noticed this in your signature ...

“A man who does nothing good for his own people is like one wordless beast that only lives to stuff his throat.” – Georgi Sava Rakovski

I like that.

Seth

 

Yeah?

I like this one too:

“No one can force you to let go of your own property and your belongings, but if they try to, you should prefer like brave men to spill your blood over the graves of your ancestors and your fathers, not to run like women and scrawny lifeless people.”
– Georgi Sava Rakovski

Georgi Sava Rakovski, on the right.

 

That's awesome! Is that Sioux, or?

It's really sad because most of the South American Natives died because of illnesses introduced to the Americas by White settlers. Their immune systems just couldn't handle the foreign sicknesses.

I couldn't have guessed that. Wow. An unearthly place to live, you picked.

From my humble experience with life, I've seen how good people are at hiding their true intentions. And let's not forget the British are one of the best at small talk. They can captivate you and bewitch you so well that you forget who you really are; even lose your identity in the long run. I'll never underestimate this their ability to "penetrate" deeply into your soul.

They admire Americans temporarily. Temporarily, because they think they can shape your beliefs into theirs, to fit them. They believe Americans can be pacified and Anglofied, gun-bannified and knife-removified with time. They are still a Monarchy, live under a Monarchy, where some old grandma dictates everything in their country. The Ottoman Empire and the USSR were Monarchies. North Korea is a Monarchy. At least that're mine personal observations over them. Once they realize you're independent, free man, you've got trouble.

Look, I will explain. I don't care about the nationality. But I often generalize about some specific nationality or nation, because there are some traits people in one country or from the same nationality share. I dislike and I cannot accept some things. I'll be honest with you, all the stereotypes about Bulgarians are 100% true. That's why I don't communicate with Bulgarians. I have 2 business connections with Bulgarians, and that sums it up. Bulgarians are show-offs, obnoxious, Bulgarians think they are better than anyone. Bulgarians go to live abroad and do not assimilate. They try and force their convictions upon the others, forcibly.

There's enough statistical proof that Bulgarians do not assimilate in large numbers; kind of like Latinos. Chicago is a good example. 5% of the Chicago population is Bulgarian, which places them at around ... 100–200K people, maybe they're even 300K already, don't know. If I remember correctly, Chicago still is the 3rd largest city in America. 5% is a lot for such a big center. Most of the action movies are filmed in Chicago, like the Dark Knight, etc. Chicago is huge. So 5% is a lot. So Bulgarians go there, form communities, print their own newspapers in Bulgarian, eat their local food, even visit specific Bulgarian Discotheques and listen to the very same chalga folk backward music they used to listen here.

What's the problem with that? The problem is hypocrisy. You go somewhere else, but you feel nostalgia. If you feel nostalgia and such a strong pull for your old place, why leave in the first place? Leave for money? The whole world is open. Surely most of the Islands in the Pacific or around Australia are better. The income tax there is 0% so you don't even have to pay taxes. It's not that. The answer is simple. They just take over foreign lands without contributing anything. I have no problem them speaking their language, but they can do it home, not force it on people. And when I say Bulgarian, BG flags on cars or homes in America are a common thing, the cringe that I feel when I see that is too unbearable. Or car plates with Bulgarian dumb stuff written like this one:

A, Dido (A, and his name which is Dido).
In Bulgarian, A! is a form of surprise. A! Look at that transvestite!
And Dido is short from Deyan, Dimitar, etc.
And I've seen more stupid sh*t, believe me.



Same with Russians.
МОНСТР is the Russian word for Monster.



And this is "ВСЕХ НА" means "ALL ON" and it's often used when insulting someone. Often attached to c*ck. "ВСЕХ НА Х*Й" means "ALL ON C*CK".



НАХРЕН translated from Russian is "f*cking".



And НЕТРЕЗВ from Russian means "I'm drunk right now".



A whole list of em:
http://www.tanyakhovanova.com/RussianPlates.html

Bulgarians do not feel comfortable outside of their postulations. They can't accept other cultures different than Russian or Turkish. That's what Bulgarians are used to. Turkish and Russian enslavement for 500 years does that, yes.

People like me, people like me that "got out", we're very few and you can count us on your fingers. People like me don't really get insulted when someone throws "you're Bulgarian" on the table because it's irrelevant. Our number is so small.

Yep, but not a great fan, really. I don't like NKVD, Communism, etc. For many years I was intrigued but Nazi ideology, but that grew old on me already. I watched so many war movies, now when I see a war movie about the WW2, I just skip it directly.

Yeah. I know German, Italian and Russian too but I forgot a lot of phrases; words. I don't use them. You don't use them, you misrecollect. Plus I don't need them. I don't use them very often.

I like to mix with Aussie slang lately because it's just so funny. You know...

Down unda
Stooge
Crikey
Mate
Agro
Arvo
You little bugga
You foreign vermin
Pommy b*stard (oh this buggs Englishmen so much I keep that in my sleeve for special occasions hahah)

And so on.
Don't mind me mixing 'cos I like it truly.

I sometimes mix it with Old English (thee, sire, she got me car), or Southern (they was, you was).

And one big thank you about that. I really appreciate it. I had to learn it on the go. I never knew English in school, I have no College degree. I had a partner from NH and we was working together, making a lot of green so I got it from him. Word by word, a pond, and pond by pond, a basin, haha. It's gotten so worse now, I am forgetting my own language. I'm mixing words, mixing phrases, forgetting phrases. Can't agree that true bi-linguality exists. It's never gonna be 50:50 or 100:100. It's always gonna be 55 to 45, or 60 to 40 and so forth.

You're a teacher, yeah? That's awesome. You should learn some Bulgarian, teach that to the kids. It's pretty easy to learn besides the hardest pronunciation in the world. Hard like Italian. If you can speak Italian, you can speak Bulgarian.

Anyways,
Ta-ta

 

Greetings.

 

Ello there, neighbor. Thanks for stopping by! Beer, whiskey, water, something to offer you in this fine cool night?

 

Handy bit of Aussie lingo-
Don't come the raw prawn with me!

1. INFORMAL•AUSTRALIAN
   attempt to deceive.
   "don't come the raw prawn with me mate, I can get it at home for that price".